Consultant For Social Behavioral Change Communication Strategy For Plastic Reduction Project In Disaster Affected Areas, Central Sulawesi Province

Yayasan Indonesia Bhadra Utama (IBU Foundation) is focused on development issues which include Health (maternal, adolescent and child newborn health), Livelihood (women and youth empowerment), Nutrition (infant and young child feeding, micronutrient supplementation), Education (early child development, inclusive education, and life-skill education), Disaster Risk Reduction (safe school and community-based disaster risk reduction and also Humanitarian Response which includes Health (Mother and Children Nutrition Health), Nutrition (infant and young child-feeding in an emergency, nutrition surveillance and several acute malnutrition), Management mental health psychosocial support, and Waste Management, Sanitation and Hygiene.

To support the project implementation, IBU Foundation hires the Communication Consultant to develop & testing the message and materials that will be used to reach and engage the intended populations. Moreover, these could relate to each of the program objectives and should be created with the participation of key stakeholders, including the partners, community workers, and media experts.  (Please click here or visit our website at http://www.ibufoundation.or.id for further information)

Summary

The consultant is expected to assist the project team in four areas (Adopted from P-Process, “ Writing a Communication Strategy for Development Programmes: A guideline for Program Managers and Communication Officers, by UNICEF, 2008)

1.       Audience Analysis: the process used to identify and understand the priority and influencing audiences for a Social Behaviour Change Communication strategy

2.       Strategic Design: including communication objectives, channel choice, implementation, and M&E plan.  The design will also be based on situation analysis and program analysis that will be provided by the project team of IBU Foundation 

3.       Development & Testing: including message development and pre-testing

4.       Implementation & Monitoring: including capacity building

5.       Evaluation & Replanting.

Timeline and Deliverables

Selection period: 9 – 15 Oct 2019

Consultancy period: 6 months. Within the consultancy period, the consultant is expected to complete the above-mentioned scope of work. 

Other Duties

·  To comply with IBU rules, regulations and existing policies, not only limited to organizational regulation, Child Safeguarding Policy, PSEA (Protection against Sexual Exploitation and Abuse), and Feedback Response Mechanism.  

·   Managing the office environment including developing practical guidance, rules, and ensuring the safety and health principal in the working area.

·     Other duties as assigned by IBU Project Manager. 

Application Process

Interested candidates should send their CV (no more than 3 pages), Expression of Interest (detailing how candidates will match with the job requirements, max. 2 pages), technical proposal (detailing plan on conducting the consultancy, max. 3 pages) together with the financial proposal (or the consultancy daily rate) and one portfolio of the communication strategy/plan that was led by the applicant (all documents are written in English) to peopledev@ibufoundation.or.id (cc to: fatima.astuti@ibufoundation.or.id) before or by 9 October 2019 (11.30PM).

Every document that is sent, please include the title as follows: CV_Candidate name; Exp of Interest_candidate name; Tech Pro_candidate name; Fin Pro_candidate name and Portfolio_candidate name.

Short-listed candidates will be contacted for the further selection process. Telephone calls and office visits for inquiries are not entertained. They could be the basis for disqualification.